I think Waterloo has enough for all of us. Much of the Allied army was Prussian, and even the "British" part had two divisions of Netherlanders, some Hannoverians, The King's German Legion and Scots both Highland and Lowland.

21 June, 1978 - 40 years ago today, The Ignominy of Córdoba. I was 9, I watched it, and I saw may dad do somersault at the last goal. Who scored the 1-1for the Schluchtis? You know who, my Scottish friends.

June 22, 1941 - Operation Barbarossa commences with a bombing of cities in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland, and artillery attacks on the entire eastern front. Most likely some of Мастер's relatives participated in this attack, although it's not always easy to tell, as many of them had these curious gaps in their CVs in the 1930s and 1940s.

Although this operation initially went badly for the Soviet Union, ultimately they prevailed, and the Soviet flag went up over the Reichstag on May 2, 1945. The Third Reich soon passed into history, Germany was occupied and ultimately divided for forty years, much of Europe was brought into the Soviet sphere, and many people were severely displaced. The latter profoundly affected the lives of people still not born for a few decades, including some IRU members.

Three days previously, Soviet archeologists had opened the tomb of Timur the Tartar in Uzbekistan. It is claimed that the tomb had an inscription,

June 27th, 1759 - General James Wolfe, one of the genocidal butchers of the pacification of the Highlands in the aftermath of the '45, begins the siege of Quebec.June 27th, 1760 - British forces defeated by Cherokee at the Battle of Echoee.June 27th, 1905 - Mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin.....June 27th, 1954 - three sent off and widespread fighting on and off the pitch at the Battle of Bern, as Hungary beat Brazil 4-2 in the QF of the world cup.

I was aware of it, since the Korean War is one of my areas. Syngman Rhee was an arsehole who did many terrible things to his own people, but he was the good guy so we backed him.

On a cheerier note: 28th June 1985 Heid and The Mem married in this church and then got drunk in this hotel before staying overnight in this hotel. It hadn't occurred to me before but it appears the theme for our wedding was "red sandstone".